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The online law school will work initially only for the California Bar, what you can do after that depends on your skill in navigating the arcane rules of other state bars.

Online law school students generally are substandard because no one in their right mind is going to put all that extra time, effort and money into to getting a degree that is only recognized in a few jurisdictions.

If ABA schools were to offer accredited online programs that paradigm would change.

However, overpaid law professors are not going to go quietly itno the night since online classes do not require $125,000 a year profs to facilitate.

Trial strategy and legal memoranda? Why would a lawyer want advice from someone who is not a lawyer and has never been one on how to "strategize at trial" or write a letter? If you want to learn trial strategy, learn from a winner, Gerry Spence runs a school:

Trial strategy and legal memoranda are normally directed at attorneys.

A legal consultant who seeks out lay people will not even be working very long. Consumers want to know what you can do for them. If you cannot represent them before a judge, they will find out. Legal work is results oriented. If you cannot provide results, making a living will be difficult. Now, intentional misrepresentation is a different matter. Calling yourself an attorney when you are not licensed is not what I am talking about here.

Assisting someone with his Chapter 7/13 petition is legal consultation. Appearing with someone before an IRS agent, as an enrolled agent, is legal consultation. Think outside the box, while following all the rules.

Either one is fine if you want a California law license. Taft traditionally gives low grades, I graduated with something like a 2.79 and passed the bar on the first go. Your odds of actually getting through such a program are about 10-1 against though. The Feds or State will not likely hire you though you can likely work as contract Public defender. As for getting jobs, be ready to fly solo unless you have relatives in the business. If it is geographically possible to attend an ABA or non ABA state accredited law school, do so instead.

The correct term is Pro Hac Vice. The original poster had some delusional idea they could be a lawyer without passing the bar, I believe they were not a Distance Learning Grad but a non ABA law school grad whose Kentucky law school went under without getting accreditation leaving them unable to take the bar in any state.

The only limited license I know of is typically between neighboring states. You can apply to practice in a state you are not licensed in on a case by case basis. Oddly, many neighboring states don't have reciprocity and an attorney may have cross over responsibilities. Hence the need for a limited license.

Of course, you must pass a bar in your own state and cannot abuse it. All this tax and immigration stuff referenced isn't relevant. Its a bar licensing thing, not a specialty thing. It can also be granted to a law student to practice under supervision, typically at DA or PD offices.

You should be taught this in law school, not trying to be arrogant or rude, but shi.t people this is day one. Do online schools not teach this? That's kind of scary.

Trial strategy and legal memoranda are normally directed at attorneys.

A legal consultant who seeks out lay people will not even be working very long. Consumers want to know what you can do for them. If you cannot represent them before a judge, they will find out. Legal work is results oriented. If you cannot provide results, making a living will be difficult. Now, intentional misrepresentation is a different matter. Calling yourself an attorney when you are not licensed is not what I am talking about here.

Assisting someone with his Chapter 7/13 petition is legal consultation. Appearing with someone before an IRS agent, as an enrolled agent, is legal consultation. Think outside the box, while following all the rules.

Says who? Unless you are licensed as a Foreign Legal Consultant, California Immigration Consultant or are a Medical legal Consultant like a RN or MD, which you obviously are not, you will be engaging unlicensed practice of the law if you "consult"" with unsuspecting clients who think you are proving some legal advice of value. Consulting is providing legal advice, you need a license to do so.